Ex-Newtown man to serve year on child porn charge
DANBURY — A former Newtown man charged with possession of child sex abuse material will serve one year in jail after receiving a suspended jail sentence last week.
David Eric Anderson, 53, was sentenced at state Superior Court in Danbury to five years in jail, suspended after one year, plus five years probation after pleading guilty to the class C felony of second-degree illegal possession of child pornography.
It is unclear if Anderson — who was originally charged with and pleaded not guilty to first- and third-degree child pornography possession — took a plea deal in the case. His attorney could not be reached for comment.
Anderson was arrested in January 2020 following a seven-year-long investigation, which Newtown police said launched after Anderson’s estranged wife discovered hundreds of obscene images — including pictures of children being sexually abused — on a computer at their home.
He had been arrested by Newtown police in 2012 on a third-degree possession of child pornography charge, later pleading guilty and being released on $10,000 bond. As part of the investigation, Newtown police contacted authorities in Massachusetts, where he was accused of secretly recording girls showering at his cottage in Salisbury,
Mass. He pleaded guilty to charges in Massachusetts and was sentenced to prison in that state in 2016, according to the Massachusettsbased newspaper The Daily News.
Anderson was taken into Newtown police custody following the completion of that sentence in January 2020.
He is serving his one year in jail at the Bridgeport Correctional Center, according to the state Department of Correction.